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Darwin

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Darwin Robotics is building general-purpose robot technicians that assemble and maintain the machines civilization runs on. We're starting with AI infrastructure, automating physical work across data center assembly, commissioning, and maintenance. Our robots learn complex tasks from human demonstrations and improve through real-world deployment

Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Darwin Robotics is building general-purpose robot technicians that assemble and maintain the machines civilization runs on.

We're starting with AI infrastructure, automating physical work across data center assembly, commissioning, and maintenance. Our robots learn complex tasks from human demonstrations and improve through real-world deployment.

Initial deployments targeted for early 2027.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously Thesis Labs, Thesis, Darwin, Thesis

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Sergio Charles

Founder/CEO

Building intelligent humanoid robots. Prev: AI R&D at Google X, NVIDIA, and Stanford AI Lab, working with Chelsea Finn on autonomous RL for robotics and Andrew Ng on computer vision. Stanford B.S. Math & CS, M.S. Stats.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Luigi Charles

Founder

Building Westworld. Previously founded a fintech payments startup, scaling volume from zero to billions. Columbia CS & Math.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
3team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2025 · Source

Origins

We are brothers, four years apart, and have been building things together our whole lives. We grew up in the Caribbean with our mom, obsessed with math and computers. Sergio taught himself calculus from MIT OpenCourseWare at 12, published mathematics as a teenager, and later worked on AI and robotics at Stanford, Nvidia, and Google X. Luigi studied math and CS at Columbia, then co-founded a payments company where he scaled engineering from zero to billions in transaction volume. As kids, we built worlds together in Minecraft. Now, we’re building robots together.

Founder account As recorded 2026-09-15

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Y Combinator

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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